Communications Committee

Our mission

Glen Waverley Uniting Church is a faithful, Christ-centred community that meets God and shares that unconditional love: [email protected]

Our Vision

Connectedness: Fostering relationships, Small Groups, Pastoral care, Gatherings and events, Intergenerational connections

Faith: Providing specified study groups, Diverse worship services & styles & times, Conferences, seminars & guest speakers, A culture of asking questions, exploring & sharing faith

Kingsway: Intentional listening to & learning from other multicultural or ethnic specific church communities, Building relationships by pastoral care and prayer support to Kingsway businesses, Participating in Kingsway events

Profile: Partnering with schools, councils and clubs, talking to community and global organisations to identify needs, Empowering the disempowered, Advocacy of community and global topics.

Living the Vision

Being Mindful - The Communications Committee prefaces its agendas and minutes with the four summary vision statements as a reminder that the deliberations of the Committee should be done in the context of this vision.
Looking Forward - The Communications Committee uses the four vision areas as a guide for discussion and decisions.
Reflecting - The Communications Committee uses the four vision areas to check whether or not anything has been missed in its consideration of its various agenda items.

Draft Agenda

9 May 2016, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Room 1

1. Sharing Time

Jan Clear

2. Attendance and Apologies

Attendance:

Apologies: Aaron Blakemore

3. Confirmation of the agenda

4. Matters arising from the report of the last meeting

A report of the previous meeting is at CommunicationsReport20160307

Are brochures up to date?

5. The GWUC Web Site

Status of new web page for the church vision?

6. Information for established newcomers

Update

7. Updating our church brochure

Report from JohnSnare on progress on writing a version suitable for translation into Chinese.

8. Inserts in the weekly bulletin

Discuss need to update existing practice/policy

9. Church 'postcard'

Discuss suggestion from Warren and follow-up from John

10. Wiki Update

Visual identity templates on the wiki?

JohnHurst says "not a good idea". The wiki is about information, pure and simple. It is NOT a sales pitch or branding exercise, and "visual identity templates" have no place. Some members will be aware of the relatively strong stance I have taken against posting PDFs on the wiki - they promote form over content, which is anathema to a wiki. If you cannot express your ideas in the formatting conventions that the wiki allows, then you probably should not be posting it on the wiki. Besides which, such "form-first" usage is memory-expensive, and the church will find that it has to pay more for such storage in the future if it does not resist such devices now.
JohnSnare says this is not a suggestion to apply the visual identity templates to wiki content. The idea is for people wishing to use the templates for some non-wiki purpose to be able to find them on the wiki

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